The combat isn't that great. I'm just gonna get off that immediately. It's mostly button-smashing, it looks flashy and great but it's pretty bad. The story starts off okay, it's nothing incredible, then it stagnates for a lot of its runtime before picking back up and become fantastic. This game is structured weirdly, because Yoko Taro is just a weird dude, but it wasn't that bad, it kind of fits the theme of the game and the stellar opening monologue. The last third of the game hits like few games do and it really makes this game unique and special. I'm extremely biased because I love almost anything that talk about existence and the human condition, which, in this case, is incredibly heightened by the fact that you don't even play as a human being, strictly speaking anyway. It's one of the few games that made me tear up.